[7] That and the fact that he knows he's better than anyone else and never tires in proving it. I also think some people who actually listen to his lyrics find that he contradicts himself from time to time without acknowledgment. But the biggest knock on him throughout his career is that he's generally had weak music post-Scott La Rock (Boom Bap and Step Into A World aside). Meh, I think if you flow as well as he does and can spit the illest stuff off the top of your head like he does, you get a lot of leeway for the other things.

I don't like his flow, I don't like the beats, I don't like his attitude. I don't like his face.

Maybe it's an acquired taste?

He came to speak to my college - which is one of those sad college-type things, that that's the guy they'd get - and he was really full of himself. I just remember him saying with great satisfaction, "You know why they call it the 'lie-bury? "Cause that's where they bury the lies!!!"

[9] Yes, he spoke at my college and said the same thing, and that didn't go over well with some of the school admins who were standing in the back of the auditorium. But you know what? He challenges established thinking, and that's one reason so many people like him. Like Alex said, you either loved or hated him, your choice.

Plus, KRS-ONE at the community college I first attended was the student body's rebuttal to a considerably odd (and as it turned out, painfully awkward) choice of speakers by school administration a month earlier: Peg Leg Bates. I'm certain his association with the area and the honors he'd received in his lifetime were the main considerations, but at age 90 (he died later that year), the painfully obvious senility as he spoke and referred to college students in a manner more fitting for the elementary school children he was used to speaking to, as well as other assorted ailments, it was plain to see that the administration was neither in touch with nor respected how or what we thought.

[10] I was thinking Reggie, too. All things considered, yeah that fits.

[11] Hee-hee... that's actually another reason so many people like him. He did us a favor! >;)

[12] I really just objected to it as a lame excuse play on words. I can't say I hate him though, I just don't think he's a very appealing MC. If I could like him, I would ... Maybe Prince Be could teach me a think or two about that!